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    A Light in the dark: NASA Sounding Rocket probes the Dark Regions of space

    October 29, 2017, Categories  Uncategorized

    Flight Facility in Virginia. Credits: Nicholas Erickson 2.The rocket is prepared at Wallops for delivery to the White Sands Missile Range in Las Cruces, New Mexico for launch on October 30, 2017. Credits: Nicholas Erickson 3. The DEUCE grating, sensitive to ultraviolet, is carefully positioned for bonding into its flight mount. Credits: Nicholas Erickson

    1. The DEUCE payload undergoing testing and integration at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Credits: Nicholas Erickson
    2.The rocket is prepared at Wallops for delivery to White Sands Missile Range in Las Cruces, New Mexico for launch on Oct 30, 2017
    Credits: Nicholas Erickson
    3. The DEUCE grating, sensitive to ultraviolet, is carefully positioned for bonding into its flight mount. Credits: Nicholas Erickson

    Though stars and galaxies fill our night sky, most of the matter in the universe resides in the dark voids in between. Spread out over unfathomable distances, this cold, diffuse gas between galaxies—called the intergalactic medium, or IGM for short—hardly emits any light, making it difficult to study.

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